Endocrinology and cell signaling in human villous trophoblast

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 550, Issue , 2009, Pages 89-102

  Mounier, Catherine ^a   Barbeau, Benoit ^a   Vaillancourt, Cathy ^b   Lafond, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

differentiation; endocrine function; fusion; human placenta; kinases; syncytiotrophoblast; Trophoblast

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUSION; CELL LINE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLACENTA; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TROPHOBLAST; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUSION; CELL LINE; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFECTION; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 69049090961     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-009-0_5     Document Type: Article

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